Sorry to hear that! Get well soon. The car can wait, its looking fantastic!
Mine is staying Clubman at the from so it will look a bit odd anyhow.
Ill post some images to keep you amused while you recover!
Matt
Posted 17 September 2015 - 09:42 PM
Sorry to hear that! Get well soon. The car can wait, its looking fantastic!
Mine is staying Clubman at the from so it will look a bit odd anyhow.
Ill post some images to keep you amused while you recover!
Matt
Posted 24 September 2015 - 01:53 PM
Jeroen, the shell will be solid around Christmas. We reach this goal together, we only need to mount the complete nose and the site panels.
Posted 11 October 2015 - 07:22 PM
Finely I am able to do something again so that's what I did this weekend.
Both inner wings are gone now and replaced both of the closing panels on the cross member, I started on the left inner wing butt I need the front sub-frame rubbers first to get the front panel on in the right position.
Made some pictures for you guys to see what I'm doing
Test fitted the new wing, fitment isn't that bad actually.
Posted 03 November 2015 - 06:51 PM
After two weekends of work both of the inner wings are fully welded and fitted. Had to cut the top lip off where the wing mounts of in both sides. It wasn't even close to get the wing on properly. Really making progress now and I am looking forward to a complete front end. Of course I made some pictures along the way.
Edited by Jeroen, 03 November 2015 - 06:52 PM.
Posted 04 November 2015 - 06:30 AM
This is really taking shape now :) Keep going its looking really good :)
Posted 04 November 2015 - 04:39 PM
Thanks man, can't wait to prep the body for the K-series engine to go in nicely
Posted 09 November 2015 - 06:07 PM
Made some good progress this weekend and finisht the scuttle panels on booth sides, after that I made some new top sections on the inner wings because the originals weren't even close and completely wrong. The complete front end is welded on now.
Edited by Jeroen, 09 November 2015 - 06:07 PM.
Posted 30 January 2016 - 07:14 PM
Its been a long time since I updated this project, but we didn't stop working on it. The rusty bonnet that I had was stripped down to only the outer skin. We discovered that the fitment was terrible at first, so I welded the bonnet in place and started too make the panel gaps that I wanted. After that the whole inner reinforcement cross panel was modified to the new shape that the skin had and also prepped for the special hood pins we had in mind. It still need some filler work cause of al the welding but it is a lot better then before.
After all the work with the bonnet was done, I looked at the sills and thought that is was probably a good idea to gif the side of the mini some more strength. I did this with a 40x2mm tube inside welded to the body at the roll cage mounts. Nice thing about this is that the outer sills still fit like the should.
After the sills I finisht the bottom side of the inner front fenders. It didn't follow the floor when we fitted the new front end. After a bit of work it came out allot better.
When the car is finisht it will run on 13x7 minilights with sportpack arches, That combo doesn't look right when you have 5'' between the tire and the wheel arches. Because I wanted to prevent unnecessary tire rub on the body tubbing the rear fenders was the only option. So we did that also.
Roll cage mounts are also welded in the body at the front and the rear. We while start to bend some tube in the next couple weeks to make a 6 point roll cage.
The body is pretty solid now, only thing left are the two big original Van side panels and some detail repair work. Had the sportpack arches laying around for almost a year now an had to see how the looked, so I fitted two of them today and really like them so far
Edited by Jeroen, 30 January 2016 - 07:26 PM.
Posted 01 February 2016 - 06:44 AM
You have very busy!!! Wont be long and it will be in paint :)
Posted 01 February 2016 - 07:57 AM
Posted 02 February 2016 - 06:33 PM
Looking really good.. Are the arches standard car one need to get some for my clubman estate but did it see any listed
Cheers Gavin
Yes that's correct. They are standard fiberglass sportpack arches. Front should fit without any problems, the rear arches need some small trimming to fit like the should. the Van and the Estate body is allot straighter in the rear so the tail light side of the rear arches sticks out a lot more then normal. I don't want that so I still have some work to do. But you can make them work with a little trimming.
Posted 03 February 2016 - 12:38 PM
Cracking build!
Posted 04 February 2016 - 01:10 PM
Posted 04 February 2016 - 03:53 PM
Looking excellent, any idea on final colour
Its going to be Ford Imperial Blue with maybe a white roof on silver 13x7 minilights
Posted 04 February 2016 - 10:50 PM
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